years in Earth's history.

Painted in the Renaissance fresco-secco technique, The Age of Reptiles showcases the contemporary view of dinosaurs as slow, sluggish creatures (a view that has gradually been replaced by more active dinosaurs). Zallinger received the Addison Emery Verrill medal in 1980 for the mural.

Background

Zallinger was an art student who in the early 1940s had been painting

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